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• Emulation of physical server in a VM environment

  Suppose you have a virtual machine that you want to imitate as much as possible the environment of a physical server in which all the resources of the physical server's CPU are dedicated to this OS.  The physical server that you emulate has 2 cores.  The ESX (i) server on which the virtual computer runs has 8 cores.  You always want to allow other VMS running on your host ESX (i).  But you want to ensure that, for this one, it gets way too CPU resources close as possible to what he would if it was not virtualized test VM.

  What is the best way to achieve this?  For example,.

  -Give the virtual machine a pool of resources that matches the physical server that you emulate.  For example, if the physical server had 2 hearts at @GHz each, then give the virtual machine a reserve of 4 GHz.  Don't set the processor affinity and let the ESX to plan other virtual machines to use your test VMs carrots.  Let your use VM to test hearts on the ESX(I) host as long as he gets his reserve of 4 GHz.

  -Give the above mentioned VM booking resources like the processor affinity as game on the virtual machine to its 2 hearts and all the virtual machines to ensure that no other virtual machines do not use 2 carrots that is using your VM test.  This is based on the theory, as in a non-virtualized environment, the operating system would have exclusive access to the nuclei, so to emulate this environment VM as exclusive access to these carrots without other virtual machines being planned in this regard.  However, because of ESX (i) to use of worlds and other differences between planning on physical servers and virtualized server affinity can really be not help not to emulate.

  I would be interested to get comments on this scenario.  The goal is to reproduce in close to the environiment in which the applications inside the BONE meet as much as possible as they would on a physical machine to use the processor as possible.

  Hmm,

  I might be inclined to actually include the reservation, as you never know if other virtual machines in your environment can increase their demands at the time you are testing and create contention scenarios.

  I also, consider reserving memory - if you don't not VMware will be very happy to 'manage' memory for you, you potentially slow down

• ESX 3.5 migrate vcenter to another server

  
  How to migrate from ESX 3.5 vcenter migrate to another server? I need to drop the current server vcenter.

  What is the best way to migrate?

  Also, how can I move the license server?

  Thank you

  Be physical vmotion wouldn't work - then you options:

  (1) vCenter maintaining physical - to maintain the existing environment, you will need to copy the existing database on the new server vCenter - once it is install a new copy of vCenter on the new machine set up the oDBC connector to point to the version copied from the database. If you are not concerned to maintain the existing environment, you can simply install a fresh instance of vcenter and remove the old environment ESX hosts and add them to the new vcenter.

  Yu could also invest in a product like PlateSpin migrate and migration of P2P.

  (2) travel vCenter for a VM - use Standaloone of VMware P2V VM vCenter Converter.

• vCenter installed on a virtual machine and the SQL DB on the physical server?

  All the

  I'll run a VM on vCenter.  A question... It is noticed that the best practice not to have the SQL Databsase(Sql 2005) on the virtual computer

  but the DB on a physical server with an ODBC connection from the virtual machine.  My client will not fail to ask - why, I can't give a clear

  answer to the question.

  If I can someone state why it is better practice to have the SQL DB on a physical server?

  Thank you!!!

  Here are a couple

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/vc_database_performance.PDF

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/SQLServerWorkloads.PDF

  I hope that helps a little...

  Please consider awarding points by scoring responses like 'proper' or 'helpul.

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• VSA does virtual vCenter Appliance support

  We are setting up a remote site with VSA running on both nodes ESX with a third ESX Server built to manage the instance of vCenter.  We run vCenter device for our main campus and would like to remain consistent, but I read her you need to run on a Windows Server vCenter.  Someone at - it care to confirm or deny?

  VSA is and add-on for vCenter for Windows.

  Some clues:

  • "vsphere Storage Appliance Planning Checklist" (http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsa.doc_10/GUID-2F776546-FAFD-4C07-8588-DD87CCFC186F.html#GUID-2F776546-FAFD-4C07-8588-DD87CCFC186F). It is said to istall vCenter on a virtual or physical machine (vCenter Server Appliance is virtual ony)
  • the "Install vCenter Server for VSA ' (http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsa.doc_10/GUID-045C6534-66AA-4034-BC53-59F2FE40A1AC.html) vCenter Server requires Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 Framework. (so Windows)
  • "Yellow brick - vCenter device" (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/08/10/vcenter-appliance/)

  My 2 cents

  Sam

• Conversion of physical server into a virtual machine

  Hello

  I would like to take a physical server and convert it to a virtual machine on the same box.  I'm new to VMs, so please tell me if this is possible and if yes, what is the best way to do it. Right now, I think these are the basic steps:

  (1) take operating system image current (2003 Server STD) using Acronis.

  (2) wipe server and install ESXi 4.

  (3) use the free VMware Converter to convert the Acronis image to a guest VM on the ESXi host.

  Will this work? Am I missing something? The traps that I should look out for?

  A few questions more to go with this:

  -J' currently have an ESXi 3.5 on a desktop host. Wouldn't be better to convert this machine on the fly to a guest on this 3.5 host, then move the guest to the new 4.0 host once it is ready?

  -This server is now an application server and has a few databases, such as WSUS and Kaspersky Administration kit and maybe something else I can't think right now. Is that causing trouble with the DBs in the transition from the physical to the virtual?

  -The machine has also acts as a file server and is connected to our iSCSI SAN. Will be a problem or I would be able to remap the LUN to the virtual machine quite easily just like I did to the physical machine?

  Sorry for the long post. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

  As long as you can take decisions associated with the image with Acronis and then convert it to a virtual machine, I think this is a good approach.  You can convert the server in a virtual machine running on your ESXi 3.5 environment but I would not run a server database production on class workstation hardware.  The performance would be probably pretty bad if you had a large number of users hitting that database.  As for using Acronis I know that it is supported but in the past I have never tried to convert an Acronis image for a virtual computer by using converter.

  The databases themselves should not have any problem on a virtual machine.  SQL runs in a virtual machine and saw complex databases even accomplish a lot.

  Reconnect to your iSCSI SAN shouldn't be a problem either.  You must ensure that the networking on the newly built 4 ESX host is configured to allow you access to all the VLANS required (iSCSI VLANS, server VLAN, etc.).  It is an important step to ensure that you have right or you will not be able to reinstall your iSCSI LUNS, once the server is converted.  Once the networking is configured the process of reconnecting to the iSCSI LUN from inside your virtual machine is the same as if it was physical.

  Good luck!

• Migrate CUCM, CUP and CUC VMS from the physical server Dell to a UCS

  Hi all

  We have 3 virtual machines from one physical server to Dell, we want to migrate those virtual machines from a server of the UCS.

  Reference Dell physical server:

  Model: PowerEdge M610

  UCS: Version of UCS B200 M4 3.0 (2 c)

  I was wondering if just copy all the files of the virtual machine to another server or there is another procedure to do this... and also we need new licenses of vmware?

  Thank you very much!!

  Kind regards!

  ESXi licenses is up to you, you might have bought it so that the UCS, or buy directly from VMWare, but you need to license.

  As for traffic, if you have vCenter, you can move the virtual machines using it (vMotion and/or Storage vMotion), or if not, you can perform a cold migration.

• How to virtualize a physical server

  Hi all

  im just wondering a little the steps involved in virtualize a physical server. (I have an esxi in place). So basically I have a server on the network physically and I would run some test on it (but want to be sure where im planing to virtualize physical and run the test on the virtual server).

  My question is

  1. how to start virtualization... I use Vconverter then bind to Esxi?

  2. after virtualization, since the physical and virtual server will have the same host name - it will be right conflicts?

  3 should I remove the physical network? -If Yes... DNS pick will see the virtual as physical?

  Thanks a lot guys

  You can find all documents related to vSphere here

  http://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-pubs.html

  See Add a Virtual Machine port group

  Check if the videos here help http://vmwarelearning.com/

• Migrate from virtual vCenter5.0 of physical server

  Hi guys,.

  I'm in the process of upgrading my vSphere5.0 to 5.1, but before that I want to migrate my vCenter5.0 (VM on the cluster to vSphere5) to the physical server. I know there is no direct upgrade from the virtual to the physical server, so I have to migrate virtual and physical memory with same version 5 and then pass vCenter5.0 to 5.1 on the physical server. Please help with the steps and questions below:

  1. build the server target with the same operating system (win2008r2 std x 64, partition of 2 x 1 for OS and 1 for the vCenter database)

  2. stop services vCenter vCenter backup config using the data migration tool (vCenter5.0). Backup DMT include the ADAM database as well? If this is not what is the best way to migrate the ADAM database?

  3. SQL database backup

  4. create the DSN connection on the target server

  5 copy the Migration.zip data for the target server

  6. run install.bat and follow the wizard, can I install the data to a different location as 2nd partition, or it must be in the same place as on the source

  7 restore the SQL database

  8 restart target vCenter

  Any help will be appreciated!

  Thank you

  S

  Sandyforvmware wrote:

  Hi Gkeerthy,

  Everything is on the same virtual server and I use SQLexpress.

  Please could you confirm 2 steps below:

  1. I don't have to create the DSN connection if everything is on the same server, is that correct? n ' yes no need to create the DSN

  2. I use 2nd partion on the Server D: target as a new location for the DB (Source have a single partition C: and all that is on it), it won't break anything, just? You can select the destination during installation... no thing will happen

  Thank you very much

  See the info up-to-date

• VMware converter restarts the physical server after conversion!

  Hello

  This can already city, but I can't find any discussion about it. I do some V2Vs using the converter Vmware 4.1.0

  The problem I have is that once the converter is completed, it randomly restarts the physical server, I converted (does not seem to happen to any of them). Of course, I don't want the physical server switch on again as changes could be made to it. I don't see any option in the converter to tell him not to restart or even stop.  It's a VtoV.  He is a SQL Server. Windows 2003 64-bit.

  I try without shutting down the server at all because it's a production server.  I don't have a Vcenter (to copy to an esxi to an another esxi).

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Hello

  For sure in the Converter 4 there is an option for the source stop server after migration.

  Below you will find a screen of VMware converter 5 with the option you are looking for. It is available at the end of the migration Assistant in OPTION --> option advance section

  

  Below the download link for Converter 5

  http://downloads.VMware.com/d/info/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

  See you soon
  Artur
  

  Please, do not forget the points of call of the "useful" or "correct" answers

• VCenter on Windows Server 2008 R2 installation

  I wonder if there could be problems installing VCenter on Windows Server 2008 R2?  We also manage VMware View in our environment VSphere and plan that upgrade to the latest version.  Anyone experiencing problems with the help of Windows Server 2008 R2 for VCenter?

  We are running the most recent version of vCenter on Windows Server 2008 R2, and he's not going great.

• multi ESXi 4.1 in 1 physical server

  Hi all

  I need to be confirmed, that I can install only 1 ESXi host on 1 physical server and I can always install multi VM inside the esxi host as long as the physical server disk is not exceeded, but this means that I can't fully use vmware HA

  Hello

  If I'm wrong a lot, your statement is correct.

  ESXi is a bare metal hypervisor, and you can have only a single host-by-physical material.

  Of course you can install a lot of guests from the virtual computer within this host.

  Yes, with one host, you may not HA (after all, a single physical box may not be highly available!)

  NK

• Physical server VM disaster recovery

  Hello

  Today, I meet some customers who would ask the site of recovery after a disaster. They would like to use all physical servers to the recovering site.

  Here's the scenario. In the production site, they will have 3 host to ESXi 4.1, with BL460G6 (the Server Blade HP), 2 Proc Intel X 5600 series, 48 GB RAM. Storage use is NetApp with iSCSI (NETAPP FAS2040) options.

  All their (converted from physical) virtual computers will consume about 4.2 TB, for most of the Linux server, multiple windows, according to. The growth of data every day is 1.6 GB. They will invest the same storage (FAS2040) on the site of DRC. Will of replication occurs every 15 minutes. They had a very good bandwidth

  Now they're using the standard replication method, they transfer file to the DRC to their server (Linux, replication, automated with script-based) and until now its works very well.

  Because they will migrate to Virtual Server, after all migration, they all want their server used in the DRC Site. My point is to know how to do it. Pouvez VMware replicated on the physical server? They will not invest more than license VMware or upgrading their equipment. They want to use the server as is.

  I thought to use RDM, create a LUN, attached to the virtual machine with the physical/virtual compatibility, then use the NetApp replication method to replicate the DRC site. Then, in the DRC, all the physical server mapped to the same LUN. Restoration, then, just reverse the replication. But then, the implementation will be difficult, because each server has a specific LUN (it had more 20 + server).

  A guy had an idea?

  Thanks for your help.

  From what I understand so far, they virtualized or not their systems and virtual machine files are stored on NetApp storage synced to the DRS!

  In this case, with the environment of virtualization (VMware Essentials) in place at the DRS, they would have only to add the virtual machine to inventory and them lights disaster on the production side. This doesn't mean no reconfiguration of drivers (for the merger to the physical hardware), up to date systems (synchronizes every 15 min.) and very little time to have the environment running on the DRS.

  The advantage of the Essentials package on the free version is management, which equals the production site and the possibility of use for example, backup software, which usually requires a licensed version.

  André

• Access to SQL Server on Windows Server 2008 guest of Windows 7 comments

  I am to evaluate VMWare workstation, and so far it looks pretty nice.  However, I cannot access SQL Server and hope someone can help out me.  Here is my configuration:

  -Windows SBS 2003 Standard physical server acting as my domain controller

  -Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit physical acting as my host

  -Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit comments development machine that needs to access SQL Server

  -Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise with SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer comments

  I connect on all computers with the same domain account that is a local and domain admin on all machines.  I use the same connection of brideged to the network adapter that connects to my domain name on the two guest computers.  The Guest Windows 7 can see files in actions on Win2008 guest.  However, in sending SMS on reviews of Win7, I can't connect to the instance of SQL Server on the guest Win2008.  I tried to disable the firewall on the Win7 host and guest Win2008 and it does not help (I tried initially just add the exceptions recommended Win2008 firewall but does so as a test, I have completely disabled the firewall, but still no dice).  Since the guest of Win7 can see the actions on the guest Win2008 I know there is some sort of communication here, but something is missing for SQL Server.

  Thank you.

  If you have connectivity between VM then basic network isn't really a matter of VMware itself.

  I had Google troubleshoot the connection to SQL Server 2008 or have a look at measures to resolve SQL connectivity issues.

• P2V conversion of variable with the physical air to ESXi VirtualCenter environment using a laptop as the converter/transport

  Hello

  I'm looking at a collection of physical servers for migration to a virtualized environment: the goal is to move from a huge collection of 30-40 physical servers of different brand/model/specification and physically scattered in many places for a single grid filled with boxes of ESXi.

  I have a question about the best way to conduct the physical to the virtual conversation process (don't worry - looking for high level only indicatively!).

  For the bottom, 30-40 physical servers are not connected/not related in terms of operating system (ie. not a member of a common domain, run multiple operating systems - for most variants of Windows NT4/2000/2003 etc) but are connected to the same physical network infrastructure and all contribute to a common function. In short they can each be considered in the sense of functional servers 'specific application.  Further and I think very important to mention, the current environment and the new rack/rigging are (to be) exploited isolation - IE. Air-ajar.

  I see my new rack running DL380s running ESXi and images on a San shared and connected them via a dedicated switch. with a VirtualCenter instance server in there somewhere to hang together... not sure at this stage as to where I should do that in a Machine virtual itself (preferable to reduce the hardware requirements), or if a physical process adding unique 'management' style server would be more appropriate.  I also have a laptop to 'manage' the environment which will be connected to the switch on an ad hoc basis.

  I want to be able to do is use this notebook to go to each of the existing physical servers in turn (connection on its network switch) and create a virtual image of it (hot or cold, although I guess the cold option seems nicer than the existing server remains completely intact) before resuming the laptop computer to the virtual test bench , and then "push" the virtual image in VirtualCenter and on an ESXi host (with any post import etc. reconfiguration tasks that may be required).  I'm not sure what components I need where to do this - specifically which allows me to capture the physical server while having no connectivity with the VirtualCenter Server?  I've read through documentation/notes Converter Enterprise - this would be the correct way to go?  If so I should the Converter Enterprise Server component installed on the VirtualCenter server or the laptop itself (ie. What must be connected to what during the capture process?) ?  Or is there a simpler approach of independent style should I watch?

  All advice/aid/comments greatly appreciated in advance!

  Simon

  Hello

  See http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/secure-method-to-p2v-across-security-zones/ for assistance. Indeed, you have the same situation. All you need is one VMware Converter.

  Best regards

  Edward L. Haletky

  VMware communities user moderator

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